Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Petronilla.
This relationship is given by Morris (p. 284).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Evidence
from the National Archives catalogue:
Petitioners: Hugh le Donfowe, Merchant of Shrewsbury; Reginald de Grafton, Merchant of Shrewsbury.
Names: Donfowe; de Grafton, Hugh; Reginald
Addressees: King and council
Occupation: Merchant of Shrewsbury
Nature of request: The petitioners request remedy concerning the restitution of the wool detained by the count of Flanders to their great damage. They had charged a boat of the port of London with 27 sarplers of wool on 15 August 1313, which was seized by the men of Flanders a day out of the port of London.
Nature of endorsement: He should go into Chancery and have a writ in Chancery used in a similar case.
Places mentioned: Salopburs (Shrewsbury), [Shropshire]; Loundres (London); Gravenyng (Gravelines), [Flanders, France]; Flanders.
People mentioned: Count of Flanders.
Date: about 1313.
from a 1318 Gild Merchant Roll:
Reginaldus de Grafton
from the Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327:
Suttone.
Regin’ de Grafton’ iij [s]
In his 1337 will (Leighton p. 99), Roberd de Weston of Salop left Petronilla de Grafton 40s. The relationship is not specified, but the location in the will suggests that Petronilla may have been a relative.
References
Drinkwater, C.H. “Seven Gild Merchant Rolls of the 14th Century” in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society ser. 3 v. 3 (1903).
Fletcher, W.G.D. “The Shropshire Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327” in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Series 3, Volume 7 (1907).
Leighton, W.A. “The Shrewsbury of Past Ages” in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. v. 11, pt. 1 (1887).
Morris, Joseph. "The Provosts and Bailiffs of Shrewsbury" in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Series 3, Volume 2 (1902).